Local Indian footballers carry cut-out portraits of Brazil's Neymar, right, and Argentina's Lionel Messi to a local club in Kolkata where people are decorating their clubs with football-related paraphernalia

A man has his picture taken as he becomes his own Panini sticker during an event to exchange stickers at Azteca Stadium in Mexico City. Italian publishing company Panini has issued a sticker album for every World Cup since the 1970 tournament in Mexico, and hundreds showed up at the stadium for the chance to fill their 2014 Fifa World Cup Brazil editions

In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the brightly painted minibuses known as tap-taps are getting a bit more colourful in the lead-up to the World Cup as they get a paint job, though no one told the artist that Zlatan Ibrahimovic won't be playing in Rio as Sweden failed to qualify

World Cup mascot Fuleco performs next to inmates during the opening ceremony of the football championship for prisoners at the Castro Castro Prison in Lima. Peru's prison service have organised a national championship between inmates of various jails